Our article, "Rapid Prototyping Accelerates the Design Process," which was
published in Machine Design magazine March 9, 2000, is now available as a
downloadable PDF file at
http://www.NewProductDynamics.com/articles.htm
Several people have been asking for this, so here it is.

This article shows that one can obtain much more than the raw speed savings
of a desktop modeler by looking for the big delays in the whole product
development process -- for example, marketing unable to decide on a product
shape attribute -- and applying these models to accelerate this activity.

Three additional rapid prototyping articles are also available at the same
URL.